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Posts matching tags 'wrestling'

2000/8/1

If professional wrestling is fake, what about amateur wrestling?
The latest trend among bored teenage boys in the US is
amateur
pro wrestling, done in suburban backyards by outfits with names like
Xtreme Championship Wrestling, and imitating the carefully choreographed
moves of pro wrestling. Not surprisingly, many of the participants end up
injured. (via Leviathan)

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2019/5/18

In other news, today was the Australian federal election, and another Labor landslide that dissolved into thin air upon contact with reality, with a terminally unpopular conservative government romping home to a resounding victory. You can

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2018/5/26

Yesterday, the Republic of Ireland held a referendum on repealing its near-total ban on abortion. The referendum had been many years in planning: other similar referenda had failed in the past, and most infamously, one in

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2015/5/24

The other big news this weekend, of course, Ireland voting in favour of legalising same-sex marriage . The margin (62%) was decisive enough, even without taking into account the fact that only one of Ireland's 43